Healthy Living

Country of Origin Labels for meat could change at the grocery store

The USDA has revised the Country of Origin Labeling program, COOL, and its original author, US Senator Tim Johnson of South Dakota, says that’s a good thing.  The proposed changes would require each production step of the animal be printed on the labels of muscle cuts of meat (but not ground meat). It also stops the packing facility practice of co-mingling livestock from multiple origins and labeling the meat from those livestock with the same label.  But what does that mean to you, the consumer?  The proposed changes would let you know where the meat came from, at each stage of production.

HEALTHY LIVING PROGRAM – Proposed meat label changes (1:30 mp3)